LizzieMaine
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My grandfather smoked himself to death, not because the habit gave him joy, but because he was addicted to a drug. Simple as that, and he admitted it. He got addicted to tobacco when he was thirteen years old, and simply didn't have the will power to give it up. I don't blame him for that as much as I blame a society that allowed "legitimate businessmen" to addict people to a filthy poison for far too many years.
Interestingly, there was an extremely focused, motivated anti-tobacco movement in the United States from the 1870s up until World War I -- and had the war not addicted an entire generation of young men to cigarettes, public sentiment would likely have moved against tobacco far sooner than it actually did.
Interestingly, there was an extremely focused, motivated anti-tobacco movement in the United States from the 1870s up until World War I -- and had the war not addicted an entire generation of young men to cigarettes, public sentiment would likely have moved against tobacco far sooner than it actually did.